About HITS Theatre

Purpose and History

Since its founding in 1980, HITS Theatre has two major goals for children in the arts: education and performance. However, a HITS education is much more than children learning to sing, dance and act. The program helps transform students into disciplined team players, creative thinkers, confident speakers and, perhaps most importantly, empathetic individuals. While many of our alumni have gone on to careers in the performing arts, many more have used the life skills and confidence they developed at HITS to become successful physicians, engineers, and attorneys in the community.

Today HITS is one of the leading performing arts education organizations for young people in the Houston metropolitan area. Throughout the year, HITS, a non-profit arts and education organization, provides musical theatre training for children ages 4 to 20 with a focus on production. Group classes, individual training, and performances take place in HITS’ theatre, which is in the heart of the historical Heights area of Houston. It is dedicated to providing school age students the highest quality performing arts education with a focus on training in the musical theater disciplines of voice, dance and acting. HITS serves the entire Houston metropolitan region with registered students as far south as Pearland, east to Baytown, north to the Woodlands and west to Katy.

Beginning in 1987, HIS began a much anticipated spring tradition by producing a Broadway musical at Houston’s Miller Outdoor Theatre free-of-charge to the public. The professional level presentations feature some of Houston’s most talented youth.  This past April, the theater presented six performances of Peter Pan to a combined audience of 20,000 people. More than 50 performers of the cast of 60 were under the age of 18.  HITS' next Miller production will be Beauty and the Beast, which will be April 9-11 and April 16-18, 2009.

HITS programs serve more than 500 students annually, 20% on partial or full needs-based scholarship. The theater is a non-Equity, 501(c)(3) organization with generous support from individual donors, corporations, and foundations including the Houston Endowment, Inc., the Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts, the Brown Foundation, the Wortham Foundation, the City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board and Houston Arts Alliance.